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Towards interpreting any residual stream direction by scaling activation inversion

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To interpret a direction in a language model's residual stream, we can look for text that strongly activates it.
But when such text is found by scanning a corpus, it is limited to what that corpus con.

Cite this synthesis DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2611.08465 ↗

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@misc{ acaciadata-research-towards-interpreting-any-residual-stream-direction-by-scalin,
  title = { Towards interpreting any residual stream direction by scaling activation inversion },
  author = { Leszek },
  year = { 2026 },
  doi = { 10.48550/arXiv.2611.08465 },
  url = { http://arxiv.org/abs/2611.08465v1 },
  note = {Summarized and classified by AcaciaFund}
}

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To interpret a direction in a language model's residual stream, we can look for text that strongly activates it. But when such text is found by scanning a corpus, it is limited to what that corpus con

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